The private sector here has become excited with the news of daily flights at Gautam Budh International Airport at Bhairahawa in Rupandehi. International flights from this airport were closed after a few months. After the pressure of local entrepreneurs, businessmen and the initiative of the airport management, two international airlines are starting flights from this month.

Gautam Budh International Airport management is currently in the final stage of flight preparation. It has been confirmed that Dubai's Fly Dubai and Kuwait's Jazeera Airlines will fly from November 9 and 10. Both the airlines have opened bookings now.

Airport General Manager Pratap Babu Tiwari informed that Fly Dubai has opened the booking of daily flight schedule from here. The airline will operate daily flights from November 10. The ship of the said company will land at Bhairahawa at 1:45 p.m. every day. It will take off from here at 2:45 p.m.

  Kuwait's Jazeera Airlines, which started the first international flight in Bhairawa, has also opened bookings. The aircraft of Jazeer Airlines, which has scheduled flights three days a week from November 9, will land at Bhairahawa at 7:45 am. On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, the train will return from Bhairahawa at 8.30 am. Apart from these two, Thai Air Asia, which is headquartered in Thailand, has said that it is studying the possibility of flying from Gautam Buddha Airport. 

'We are confident that Air Asia will start flying soon,' Tiwari told Kantipur, 'This has added joy to us, we are trying to create the necessary environment for regular flights from here.' 

Tiwari also said that it will be cheaper for citizens who can take flights from Bhairahawa, and it will be easier for citizens who can get gharpai facilities. He said that because international flights will make the foreign market viable and businessmen who have invested crores of rupees will be able to do business, structurally ready airport should be operated. Tiwari said that since the government has also decided on various concessions, passengers fly from Bhairahawa and get used to it. He said that there are facilities for all kinds of work inside the airport and since some Gulf countries do not have the necessary health check-up work, initiatives have been started for that. Sanjay Bajimay, current president of Society of Travel and Tour Operator Nepal, said that they are happy that international flights will be available at the

airport. According to him, tourism professionals in Lumbini region are excited about international flights. 

He says that even though the flight was earlier, it was stopped in the middle of hope, so he could not trust it again. "We can't rely on it because it stopped operating even before," he said, "only one Jajira coming regularly will not help Lumbini's tourism much."

In order to promote internal and external tourism possibilities and also for European and Gulf countries, if it is confirmed that the flights will be scheduled with other big planes, he said that there may be some relief from that. Bajimay says that they want to have a direct flight here anyway. 

The general secretary of Siddharth Hotel Association, Indralal Neupane (Mahendra), said that the tourism business could flourish after the operation of the airport when the economic sector is not running as expected. He expressed his belief that after the operation of the airport, tourists will come to Lumbini to see and study the Buddha circuit.